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Linnea's cold is so bad she can't breathe well enough to breastfeed properly. She was up for two hours in the night because she couldn't breathe comfortably enough to sleep, and she woke with a headache. We've broken out the big guns: infant Benylin, max dose. It seems to have helped today.

I'm working my way through boxes and boxes of tissues, and drinking decongestant teas. The tadpole doesn't like the sound of nose-blowing, and has been hurting the muscles that twinge when I roll over in bed. Linnea and I were both sick enough to need a hot meal at lunchtime, and I wasn't well enough to cook one comfortably, so I blew my month's eating out budget on delivery pizza. I had jalapenos on my half in the hope that it would make my nose run. It didn't, much.

The fact that Linnea's cold is turning into a cough is bothering me. If she's still coughing tomorrow I'm taking her to the doctor. She's had this cold since Thursday, and she's given it to me, and I think Rob is going to come down with it too. I wish I could work out a way to catch everything before she does, because in general, if I catch it first, she comes off very lightly, and if she catches it first, she and I are both equally unwell. Bah.

Still, we're getting places. Rob isn't sick yet and there's more daylight while he's at home, so:

1. Cut grass
2. Clean cooker
3. Vacuum stairs
4. Vacuum three rooms and landing upstairs
5. Throw away dead houseplants (we've killed another spider-plant, this time through overwatering)
6. Vacuum two armchairs and the sofa
7. Tidy spare bedroom until it's almost fit to use as such
8. List stack of misc geek goods on Freecycle
9. Bring box of books to charity shop or otherwise get rid of them
10. Bake chocolate cake
11. Plan meals for the next two weeks and compile shopping list
12. Wipe down icky banister, doorhandles, other grimy icky bits people rub hands all over
13. Find Linnea's Little Red Book
14. Print Linnea's birthday invitations
15. Get blasted bunkbed parts out of the bloody master bedroom, dammit
16. Add paperback biographies to book catalogue
17. Add downstairs poetry and drama to book catalogue
18. Get dangerous DIY kit out of understairs cupboard
19. Sort "Linnea's" art equipment, not for my benefit, oh no, altruistic parenty stuff only, yessir
20. Buy stamps of various flavours for the address book pocket, which currently has no UK internal stamps, only post to US or Europe.

Birth trauma: chasing the medical notes

The form was filled in and sent. I was much more able to fill in a form than write a letter, and Rob posted it today.

What a relief.